The bulk update request #4693 is pending approval.

create alias teeth_showing (12782) -> teeth (714706)
create alias showing_teeth (1199) -> teeth (714706)

Reason: These tags should be aliased to teeth, since they mean the same thing.

For some reason this alias (teeth_visible->teeth) was approved while this alias (teeth_showing->teeth) was rejected, despite the fact that teeth_visible and teeth_showing mean exactly the same thing.

Some other tags to consider adding to this alias BUR:
exposed_teeth
tooth_showing

I feel like showing_teeth could be synonymous with baring_teeth bared_teeth a lot of the time - could be worth some manual cleanup before aliasing.

faucet said:
I feel like showing_teeth could be synonymous with baring_teeth a lot of the time - could be worth some manual cleanup before aliasing.

Fair enough (although FYI baring_teeth has been aliased to bared_teeth), it could even be turned into a disambiguation, but at a glance it seems that for the most part the tag is used just like the normal teeth tag.

lonely_fox_89 said:
Fair enough (although FYI baring_teeth has been aliased to bared_teeth), it could even be turned into a disambiguation, but at a glance it seems that for the most part the tag is used just like the normal teeth tag.

Which sucks. I guess a disambiguation followed by alias for if someone tries to resurrect it? Disambiguations get finished, eventually.

https://e621.net/posts?tags=showing_teeth+-teeth
https://e621.net/posts?tags=showing_teeth+teeth
Welp, apparently, both are common. Was hoping the former was pretty rare, since the latter will be redundant to tag after this alias goes through.

https://e621.net/posts?tags=showing_teeth+-teeth+-bared_teeth+ Oh no...
https://e621.net/posts?tags=showing_teeth+-teeth+bared_teeth+ 0 results. This is not a shock.

At least you can easily tell from thumbnails if it's bared.
"When a character pulls back their lips to expose their (typically clenched) teeth. Generally used to signify aggression and paired with growling or snarling." Reminder for convenience of tagging accurately.

Hmm, clenched_teeth is supposed to imply bared_teeth?

https://e621.net/posts/1800424?q=showing_teeth+-teeth+-clenched_teeth+-bared_teeth I believe this doesn't fit the definition of baring teeth? Pretty sure that it's only smile tag.

https://e621.net/posts?page=2&tags=showing_teeth+-teeth+-clenched_teeth+-bared_teeth I went ahead and just clicked through starting from here.

https://e621.net/post_versions?commit=Search&search%5Bexclude_uploads%5D=0&search%5Btags_added%5D=bared_teeth&search%5Bupdater_id%5D=27213 Is there any way to get a list of thumbnails in normal posts search form, from this search?

Immediate -1 from me. Showing_teeth and teeth are functionally different. A single tooth on the floor could count as a teeth for tagging purposes meanwhile showing_teeth is a facial expression made by a character.
They are not the same, it would tantamount to alias grin to teeth.

At most i can see an argument for showing_teeth -> grin or showing_teeth -> bared_teeth, but this, this is ridiculous. It should be an implication.

wolfmanfur said:
Immediate -1 from me. Showing_teeth and teeth are functionally different. A single tooth on the floor could count as a teeth for tagging purposes meanwhile showing_teeth is a facial expression made by a character.
They are not the same, it would tantamount to alias grin to teeth.

At most i can see an argument for showing_teeth -> grin or showing_teeth -> bared_teeth, but this, this is ridiculous. It should be an implication.

Yeah, why I need to go back through ones I tagged bared_teeth. I wish they had "taggedby:" or "edited:" metatag. :( It would make it trivial to ask someone else to go over the tags I did using thumbnails.

Also, I'm more than slightly tempted to just replace most of bared_fangs results (including my own edits) with bared_teeth + fangs because no need for all 3 tags. There's probably a reason that so few results exist for bared_fangs. There's all of one exception that makes sense and only because for a snake, ALL the visible teeth are fangs. Right...

Some of them are smile and not bared teeth, like that example. I have 200+ more to go through, before cleaning up the ones I'm not sure on. If I have to, I can just revert all of them. :(

wolfmanfur said:
Immediate -1 from me. Showing_teeth and teeth are functionally different. A single tooth on the floor could count as a teeth for tagging purposes meanwhile showing_teeth is a facial expression made by a character.
They are not the same, it would tantamount to alias grin to teeth.

At most i can see an argument for showing_teeth -> grin or showing_teeth -> bared_teeth, but this, this is ridiculous. It should be an implication.

For full disclosure, I never knew bared_teeth was even a tag to begin with. I never of thought of using that in any capacity ever.

While tagging I always tagged showing_teeth with the definition of bared_teeth in mind. Another reason not to alias it to teeth as folks like me will never tag bared_teeth, and while now I know it is a real tag after seeing this post, this ain't gonna be true for a good number of people out there who will try to use showing_teeth and it being redirected to teeth, it will result in worse tagging overall.

wolfmanfur said:
For full disclosure, I never knew bared_teeth was even a tag to begin with. I never of thought of using that in any capacity ever.

While tagging I always tagged showing_teeth with the definition of bared_teeth in mind. Another reason not to alias it to teeth as folks like me will never tag bared_teeth, and while now I know it is a real tag after seeing this post, this ain't gonna be true for a good number of people out there who will try to use showing_teeth and it being redirected to teeth, it will result in worse tagging overall.

You're right. We'll have to do more work. Probably a case of retag the exceptions, update the 'teeth' examples, then alias showing_teeth to baring_teeth for future taggers? Not the first time I've seen case where it makes sense to follow an update with an alias, today, sigh... I feel like I'm at point where I may have screwed up by jumping gun.